People certainly should have a heart. I think you're reading rather a lot into my question, though.
The facts of the case do not in any way hinge on the defendant being disabled, or a single mother or on Social Security. Why raise any of these issues in a news summary? "Person begins to get redress for 'frivolous, nonexistent, totally unnecessary, case'" would do. A person's disability (or colour, or religion, or income, or favourite football team) doesn't need to be brought into the equation unless it's relevant (maybe if she was deaf it would add an extra layer).
I haven't RTFAs (or not all of them anyway - have you?). But I'm struggling to see why she is described as "innocent, disabled". Does the validity of the case or the settlement depend on her being disabled?
The site's most common criticism is its astounding similarity to Facebook and Dariani admits that it is based on it. Except from some additional features such as seeing who most recently visited one's profile, the differences are in name only to be strictly German. Facebook's "poke" has been named "gruscheln" for example Some of the error messages reveal that one of the folders on the site is called "Fakebook", indicating that the developers were well aware of the similarities.
And as an anecdotal rebuttal to all that, I've personally updated two machines from Panther -> Tiger -> Leopard and my family at large has done Jaguar -> Panther -> Tiger -> Leopard on G5s, PowerBooks, MBs, MBPs and MacPros, using a wide range of software (we're all photography buffs, one of us is a designer, two of us are developers, one MacPro is still running Tiger). Backup, upgrade. If you have problems, do a clean install. But so far we've done just fine with upgrades, thanks.
I updated the firmware on my Vigor 2600 router a couple of weeks back in order to enable WDS. Also seems to have improved the ADSL reliability. It was the first update I'd done to it in over a year. Also updated by BlackBerry earlier this year so that it could connect to my Mac without locking the machine up solid. So at least one person is still doing firmware upgrades...
Which OS/add-ons? On Mac OS X 10.5.2, Firefox build 2008051202 (ABP 0.7.5.4, Firebug 1.1.0b12, FoxyProx 2.7.4, Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2, NoScript 1.6.5, Web Developer 1.1.5, standard theme), I've just downloaded Google Earth with no bother at all from http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html.
That takes me back. My MSc project in 1992 was visualizing 3D waves on Transputers using Occam. Divide the wave into chunks, give each chunk to a Transputer, pass the edge case between the Transputers and let one of them look after the graphics. Seem to recall there were lots of INs and OUTs. A friend of mine simulated bungie jumps using similar code, with a simple bit of finite element analysis chucked in (the rope changed colour based on the amount of stretch).
What he said, almost word-for-word. (Atari, Sinclairs, Amiga, BBCs, PCs, Macs)
A group of us at work go over this argument most weeks. I'm the oldest of the group (38) and I use a Mac for computing and an XBox 360, PSP, DS for gaming. A PS3 will shortly replace the XBox (media and noise issues). I have less than no interest in FPSes (amongst other things I get the equivalent of vertigo when I play them for more than a couple of minutes and like the parent poster, they ask awkward moral questions of me - my answers to those questions mean I've put FPSes aside). I have a few emulators on the Mac (BeebEM3 being my favourite) to remind me why I got into this business in the first place (Elite, Thrust, BBC Basic, in no particular order).
The younger members of the team are still totally into PC gaming (although most of the games they play are available for or originated on consoles). It must be some kind of masochistic streak though - I've got the largest disposable income of the lot of them and my total gaming investment for static and mobile gaming is less than one of their PCs, before we even get onto the whole upgrade issue. I get more hours' use out of them and I suspect more fun. Other than an occasional network glitch with the XBox (and one RRoD), I've had no other maintenance issues to deal with. As a consumer I'm afraid I can't understand the PC gamer's position. As a hobbyist it maybe makes more sense, but really I don't want to deal with nuts and bolts when I sit down to play - I just want to play.
The son of a friend of mine regularly suggests we have a go at some recent racing game on his "kick-ass PC rig" whenever I visit. Normally, the first 20-30 minutes of these sessions involve talking about the latest over-clocking problem or why he's "had" to upgrade his video card again. His brother has a Wii - my wife and I have regularly beaten him at tennis or bowling without even having to know that we used a computer...
1. Sir Arthur dies; 2. The reason for my chosen career and hobby gets a story on Slashdot. I owned a Model 'B', then a couple of 128s. I helped (as a pupil) to run the Econet-based system at Oundle School in 1986-87, which I believe got some of its kit early due to links with Cambridge. By the time I left, we'd got a 20MB drive on the network. Quite an upgrade, since we'd previously depended on a couple of double-sided floppy drives as storage for the classroom.
Notable projects included an abortive attempt to write a robot control language running from EEPROM (*UP, *LEFT, *GRIP). That and an endless struggle to beat the tape protection on games.
How I wish I'd kept the machines. I moved onto an Archimedes or two, then moved away from coding into gaming with an Amiga.
There haven't been many computers with such easily accessible programming power (I owned several Sinclair Research machines and found the idiotic keyboard "auto-type" got in the way of thinking more than it speeded things up).
Incidentally, we never called the computer 'Beeb' - that's the name for the old Corporation (often as "Auntie Beeb").
In the UK stores at least, rebooting the Mac reinstalls the original image. The day Mighty Mouse was launched I went in to try it out. It took them a while to demo it since the driver software required a reboot...
So, no risk to your cred. It's no work to the employees since they just restart the machine and bingo - a clean and pristine environment returns.
"real problems in the UK" - Some areas of the UK, maybe.
"Many people won't leave their homes" - Some people would be fairer
"Namby pamby liberal Labour government" - ah, now we're getting somewhere. A think a dose of salt may be called for if this person genuinely thinks that our Labour government is "liberal".
"unfair to people who are not causing trouble" - including babies, or are they part of the "rapidly breeding underclass" and therefore deserve a good dose of pre-emptive noise pain?
I work in South-East London (Eltham to be exact). The kids in the park DO make a lot of noise, but don't appear to be in gangs or packs. I also have an office in Chatham - no gangs that I've ever come across, and Greenwich - only gangs of tourists. I live in rural Kent - gangs of ramblers. I hail from Lincoln originally - still no gangs in the bits I visit when I'm seeing the parents.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that some (all?) of this Big Brother crap is brought on ourselves because perception of crime is out of kilter with reality. It may be overstepping the mark, but the kind of media that feeds the populace lines like "namby pamby liberal" must accept some of the blame for this.
I couldn't really care less about the trademark side of things, although the FAQ I pointed to does make a valid point. I call it idiotic because it's like calling a group of sheep "sheeps". LEGO, lego, whatever, but "LEGOS" or "legos" (with or without a trademark symbol) make no sense and sound dumb.
Finally, this isn't an important enough argument to post AC, surely? Have the courage of your convictions, my friend.
To be fair, I don't think they treat him as a crank because of his views on asteroid defense. His choice (and treatment) of female companions ensures that he's regularly in the red tops for non-political reasons. I forget which of the fragrant Cheeky Girls he's stepping out with (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeky_girls) now that he's dumped his previous TV weather forecaster fiancee, Siân Lloyd.
None of which should matter, or detract from his message, or make him appear any less sincere... It just means that when he appears on chat shows (he loves them), quiz shows (can't get enough of them either), daytime telly (quite likes that too) etc, it's difficult for the interviewers to engage seriously on a subject that he genuinely believes in.
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So what "disabled" really means here is "poor". Why not just say it? It doesn't matter why she's poor.
People certainly should have a heart. I think you're reading rather a lot into my question, though.
The facts of the case do not in any way hinge on the defendant being disabled, or a single mother or on Social Security. Why raise any of these issues in a news summary? "Person begins to get redress for 'frivolous, nonexistent, totally unnecessary, case'" would do. A person's disability (or colour, or religion, or income, or favourite football team) doesn't need to be brought into the equation unless it's relevant (maybe if she was deaf it would add an extra layer).
I haven't RTFAs (or not all of them anyway - have you?). But I'm struggling to see why she is described as "innocent, disabled". Does the validity of the case or the settlement depend on her being disabled?
Any reason for the perverse spelling of quasi?
and from that page:
Some sort of evil Slashdot-mod-bot spotted the four exclamation marks and jumped to conclusions???? (those queries'll confuse it!!!!)
3.1 If your camera has a mirror lockup mode, use it.
Maybe the parts really are moving less. Or we are less moved by them.
Last time I checked, Netware didn't support RDP (the Remote Desktop Protocol). I'm not saying the rest of your post is inaccurate...
"Abstruse" (from the Latin abstrudere, to conceal, would also be appropriate in this case, since it means "difficult to understand".
And as an anecdotal rebuttal to all that, I've personally updated two machines from Panther -> Tiger -> Leopard and my family at large has done Jaguar -> Panther -> Tiger -> Leopard on G5s, PowerBooks, MBs, MBPs and MacPros, using a wide range of software (we're all photography buffs, one of us is a designer, two of us are developers, one MacPro is still running Tiger). Backup, upgrade. If you have problems, do a clean install. But so far we've done just fine with upgrades, thanks.
I updated the firmware on my Vigor 2600 router a couple of weeks back in order to enable WDS. Also seems to have improved the ADSL reliability. It was the first update I'd done to it in over a year. Also updated by BlackBerry earlier this year so that it could connect to my Mac without locking the machine up solid. So at least one person is still doing firmware upgrades...
Which OS/add-ons? On Mac OS X 10.5.2, Firefox build 2008051202 (ABP 0.7.5.4, Firebug 1.1.0b12, FoxyProx 2.7.4, Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2, NoScript 1.6.5, Web Developer 1.1.5, standard theme), I've just downloaded Google Earth with no bother at all from http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html.
That takes me back. My MSc project in 1992 was visualizing 3D waves on Transputers using Occam. Divide the wave into chunks, give each chunk to a Transputer, pass the edge case between the Transputers and let one of them look after the graphics. Seem to recall there were lots of INs and OUTs. A friend of mine simulated bungie jumps using similar code, with a simple bit of finite element analysis chucked in (the rope changed colour based on the amount of stretch).
Happy Days at UKC.
What he said, almost word-for-word. (Atari, Sinclairs, Amiga, BBCs, PCs, Macs)
A group of us at work go over this argument most weeks. I'm the oldest of the group (38) and I use a Mac for computing and an XBox 360, PSP, DS for gaming. A PS3 will shortly replace the XBox (media and noise issues). I have less than no interest in FPSes (amongst other things I get the equivalent of vertigo when I play them for more than a couple of minutes and like the parent poster, they ask awkward moral questions of me - my answers to those questions mean I've put FPSes aside). I have a few emulators on the Mac (BeebEM3 being my favourite) to remind me why I got into this business in the first place (Elite, Thrust, BBC Basic, in no particular order).
The younger members of the team are still totally into PC gaming (although most of the games they play are available for or originated on consoles). It must be some kind of masochistic streak though - I've got the largest disposable income of the lot of them and my total gaming investment for static and mobile gaming is less than one of their PCs, before we even get onto the whole upgrade issue. I get more hours' use out of them and I suspect more fun. Other than an occasional network glitch with the XBox (and one RRoD), I've had no other maintenance issues to deal with. As a consumer I'm afraid I can't understand the PC gamer's position. As a hobbyist it maybe makes more sense, but really I don't want to deal with nuts and bolts when I sit down to play - I just want to play.
The son of a friend of mine regularly suggests we have a go at some recent racing game on his "kick-ass PC rig" whenever I visit. Normally, the first 20-30 minutes of these sessions involve talking about the latest over-clocking problem or why he's "had" to upgrade his video card again. His brother has a Wii - my wife and I have regularly beaten him at tennis or bowling without even having to know that we used a computer...
Different strokes I suppose.
Order all wrong, my Amiga was before my BBCs. PC followed Archimedes. You're not interested anyway. Oh well.
1. Sir Arthur dies;
2. The reason for my chosen career and hobby gets a story on Slashdot. I owned a Model 'B', then a couple of 128s. I helped (as a pupil) to run the Econet-based system at Oundle School in 1986-87, which I believe got some of its kit early due to links with Cambridge. By the time I left, we'd got a 20MB drive on the network. Quite an upgrade, since we'd previously depended on a couple of double-sided floppy drives as storage for the classroom.
Notable projects included an abortive attempt to write a robot control language running from EEPROM (*UP, *LEFT, *GRIP). That and an endless struggle to beat the tape protection on games.
How I wish I'd kept the machines. I moved onto an Archimedes or two, then moved away from coding into gaming with an Amiga.
There haven't been many computers with such easily accessible programming power (I owned several Sinclair Research machines and found the idiotic keyboard "auto-type" got in the way of thinking more than it speeded things up).
Incidentally, we never called the computer 'Beeb' - that's the name for the old Corporation (often as "Auntie Beeb").
Happy days.
In the UK stores at least, rebooting the Mac reinstalls the original image. The day Mighty Mouse was launched I went in to try it out. It took them a while to demo it since the driver software required a reboot...
So, no risk to your cred. It's no work to the employees since they just restart the machine and bingo - a clean and pristine environment returns.
Something "new" on the net => ISPs moan.
"real problems in the UK" - Some areas of the UK, maybe.
"Many people won't leave their homes" - Some people would be fairer
"Namby pamby liberal Labour government" - ah, now we're getting somewhere. A think a dose of salt may be called for if this person genuinely thinks that our Labour government is "liberal".
"unfair to people who are not causing trouble" - including babies, or are they part of the "rapidly breeding underclass" and therefore deserve a good dose of pre-emptive noise pain?
I work in South-East London (Eltham to be exact). The kids in the park DO make a lot of noise, but don't appear to be in gangs or packs. I also have an office in Chatham - no gangs that I've ever come across, and Greenwich - only gangs of tourists. I live in rural Kent - gangs of ramblers. I hail from Lincoln originally - still no gangs in the bits I visit when I'm seeing the parents.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that some (all?) of this Big Brother crap is brought on ourselves because perception of crime is out of kilter with reality. It may be overstepping the mark, but the kind of media that feeds the populace lines like "namby pamby liberal" must accept some of the blame for this.
Disk is cheap. The amount of ...
Disk is not cheap in a laptop, either in financial terms or in space/heat/power terms.
I couldn't really care less about the trademark side of things, although the FAQ I pointed to does make a valid point. I call it idiotic because it's like calling a group of sheep "sheeps". LEGO, lego, whatever, but "LEGOS" or "legos" (with or without a trademark symbol) make no sense and sound dumb.
Finally, this isn't an important enough argument to post AC, surely? Have the courage of your convictions, my friend.
See Question 18 of http://ericharshbarger.org/lego/faq.html. A pre-emptive strike.
Put a 10mph car on a 70mph motorway (freeway, autobahn etc) and watch the fun...
To be fair, I don't think they treat him as a crank because of his views on asteroid defense. His choice (and treatment) of female companions ensures that he's regularly in the red tops for non-political reasons. I forget which of the fragrant Cheeky Girls he's stepping out with (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeky_girls) now that he's dumped his previous TV weather forecaster fiancee, Siân Lloyd.
None of which should matter, or detract from his message, or make him appear any less sincere... It just means that when he appears on chat shows (he loves them), quiz shows (can't get enough of them either), daytime telly (quite likes that too) etc, it's difficult for the interviewers to engage seriously on a subject that he genuinely believes in.